A bumper before the tree of glory ...

I read once more that Mr Jonathan Wild was descended from the great Wolfstan Wild - 

I admired Fielding's elegant convoluted prose - 

Before he climbed the tree of glory the Thief taker General drank the health of his friends in a bumper of brandy - 

I'd found the book in the ninth box, under a foxed Everyman - 

I remembered the bookshop in Winchester - 

I'd reeled later into Evensong - 

The cathedral was filled with ancient song - 

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Saturday April 22 2017

The Old School House

East Stoke 

Dorset